Hands Up! You're Free

Subtitled "Three Peel Sessions" (on rear of the cover) [On center label]: Released by arrangement with BBC Enterprises Ltd. Session 1 ℗ BBC 1983, session 2 ℗ BBC 1985, session 3 ℗ BBC 1986 Published by Low Noise Music © 1988 [On rear cover]: Thanks to (of course) John Peel, and to Cobie (also of course). Distributed by Nine Mile & The Cartel, Warwick, England, distributed by De Konkurrent, Amsterdam, Holland. Pay not more than 12,50 Gulden Yes, don´t pay more than £4 A collection of three studio sessions for John Peel's BBC radio show. (The following between quotation marks is quoted with omittances from the backside): "Session 1 (track A1 - A4) took place on September 4, 1983. Session 2 (track A5 - B8) was recorded on November 24, 1985. Session 3 (track B9 - B12) dates from November 30, 1986. Except for track B8 (which was never released before), all songs appear in different musical settings (while recorded elsewhere in time and place)on various other (formerly vinylised) Ex-products. A version of track 1 appeared on The Red Dance Package, a split 12" with Alerta (CNT Productions, CNT 017, September '83), and there is also a live version on Support The Miners' Strike, a split live-benefit album with Zowisoand Morzelpronk+Nico (Records Against Thaatchism, RAT 001, February '85). Versions of track 2, 3 & 4 can be found on Blueprints For A Blackout, a double album on Pig Brother Productions (EX 018/019, March '84). A recording of track 5 appeared on two compilations, i.e. Hits And Corruption (Hits$Corruption, HAC1, March '86) and the double album Emma (M.A. Draje Records, 001tm4, May '86). A live version of track 9 can be heard on The First After Epiphany, the Ron Johnson compilation (Zron 21, May '86). And then there are different versions of track no. 5, 6 (with entirely different music), 7, 9, 10, 11 & 12 on the double album Too Many Cowboys (Ex Records, EX 031/032 June '87). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tracklist position appears in sequential order regardless of sides. Includes a 42cmx55cm black and white poster with lyrics, credits, paintings on one side and a photo on the other.